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08/31/2006 Entry: "Cool Swedish (duh) netlabel"

Go Jukebox might be the coolest label on the planet at the moment and yes it is Swedish (and no, I have no intentions of taking the blinders off). Go Jukebox offers four of the most compelling artists I've heard this year.

Reverend Big O has an older album and a covers EP available on esteemed Swedish label A West Side Fabrication (home to The Bear Quartet), but truly it's these digital-only EPs where the band's slowcore majesty has really closed the circuit.

Meanwhile You Are My Everything, the art-rocking up-tempo alter-ego of Reverend Big O, turns the epic-emo/drone-rock knob to 11 and has one of my favorite songs of the year in "I Was A Punk", so early-millennial-b-side-Bear Quartet that it breaks my heart.

Garmisch Partenkirchen is a wickedly mesmerizing cross between The Knife and The Kid, sultry and psychosexual, just the way we like 'em. When Pitchfork hears this they'll have orgasmic seizures, mark my words.

Lastly, Baby Blonde & The Downs do the haunting indie-pop duet as well as my all-time-favorite haunting indie-pop dueters Vega, but with a much more homespun, folksy fuzzywuzziness. And automatically I'm in love.

Here's THE BEST PART: Go Jukebox is a label trafficking in free downloads. It's all free, it's all available in high-quality mp3s (and streaming m3u), and like I said the bands and tunes are excellent.

So, Go download, go enjoy, go worship, Go Jukebox!